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title: Then stork-papa flapped his wings in first-rate style, and he and th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then stork-papa flapped his wings in first-rate style, and he and the swans flew away to the Viking's castle. Who acts: stork papa, papa. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 64

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Then stork-papa flapped his wings in first-rate style, and he and the swans flew away to the Viking's castle.

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**Who acts:** stork papa, papa · **What happens:** flap, fly away · **To what, where:** wings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork papa, papa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:87:64
# text = Then stork-papa flapped his wings in first-rate style, and he and the swans flew away to the Viking's castle.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flap** | past | stork papa | papa's wings |  |  | then | in first rate style | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Patient in style=Topic |
| 2 | **fly away** | past | papa |  |  |  |  | to the Viking's castle *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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